PSA

I was given the assignment this week to do a PSA (public service announcement). Well, I have a team entitled "Stronger." Its aimed at teens who drink, smoke, do drugs or have premarital sexual relations. The announcement will show people that you can be 16 years old and not have to cave in to the peer pressures of society. It takes a "stronger" person to say "no" to something that everyone assumes to be cool than it does to say "yes." Kids today very much under-value themselves and are so ready to put out in order to be accepted by their peers. I don't believe in compromising my values for acceptance; believe it or not, you can survive without "friends"... who technically not friends if they're going to push you into something that you don't want to do! That's what the PSA is going to be about.

It may also involve some "Death Scene" pictures of my friends and I to show the alternative to saying "no." They should be fun to shoot... er, the PICTURES should be fun to shoot (not my friends!!!). I don't think teens who do stupid things ever thing that a tragedy will ever hit so close to home, but maybe if they were to see how serious other kids their age take the ordeal they'll realize that drugs, sex, alcohol, or smoke tobacco are not things to be tampered with.